Validating AIRS upper atmosphere water vapor retrievals using aircraft and balloon in situ measurements

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 21, 2004, Pages

  Hagan, Denise E ^a   Webster, C R ^a   Farmer, C B ^a   May, R D ^a   Herman, R L ^a   Weinstock, E M ^b   Christensen, L E ^a   Lait, L R ^c   Newman, P A ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

0365 Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Troposphere Composition and chemistry; 3360 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Remote sensing; 3394 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Instruments and techniques

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; MOISTURE; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SATELLITES; VAPORS; WATER; BALLOONS; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED INSTRUMENTS; NASA; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDER (AIRS); PRE-AURA VALIDATION EXPERIMENT (PRE-AVE); PRESSURE LEVEL; WATER VAPOR;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; INFRARED IMAGERY; SENSOR; WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDERS; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; INITIAL ASSESSMENT; PRE-AURA VALIDATION EXPERIMENTS; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; WATER VAPOR MEASUREMENT; WATER VAPOR RETRIEVAL; WEATHER PATTERNS;

EID: 13244289818     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020302     Document Type: Article

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